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The Process
Joel Powell has enjoyed a highly successful career as an orchestra teacher. He is also a highly experienced speaker and professional development leader, having presented sessions all throughout the United States of America. As a teacher, his overall process and his ensembles have been presented in The Instrumentalist magazine, and he has been a featured topic presenter (and conductor of a performing ensemble) at The Midwest Clinic International Band and Orchestra Conference.
He keenly engages with music educators to facilitate a collaborative, hands-on, helpful, fun, enjoyable, and genuinely worthwhile professional development session. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Effective String Pedagogy
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Beginning Orchestra Approaches
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Teaching and Sustaining Excellent Foundations in String Players
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Curriculum and Whole-Program Alignment
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Fundamentals in the Orchestra Classroom (Including Warmups and Program Processes)
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Leading a Program as the "Orchestra CEO of the Year"
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Sustaining and Maintaining Passion
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Proven recruiting strategies
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Teaching with Love: Growing and maintaining successful orchestra programs
